Buy European
Overview:
The community to discuss buying European goods and services.
Rules:
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Be kind to each other, and argue in good faith. No direct insults nor disrespectful and condescending comments.
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Do not use this community to promote Nationalism/Euronationalism. This community is for discussing European products/services and news related to that. For other topics the following might be of interest:
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Include a disclaimer at the bottom of the post if you're affiliated with the recommendation.
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No russian suggestions.
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- Alt accounts are permitted, but all accounts must list each other in their bios.
- No generative AI content.
Useful Websites
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General BuyEuropean product database: https://buy-european.net/ (relevant post with background info)
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Switching your tech to European TLDR: https://better-tech.eu/tldr/ (relevant post)
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Buy European meta website with useful links: https://gohug.eu/ (relevant post)
Benefits of Buying Local:
local investment, job creation, innovation, increased competition, more redundancy.
European Instances
Lemmy:
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Basque Country: https://lemmy.eus/
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๐ง๐ช Belgium: https://0d.gs/
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๐ง๐ฌ Bulgaria: https://feddit.bg/
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Catalonia: https://lemmy.cat/
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๐จ๐ฟCzech Republic https://lemmings.world/
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๐ฉ๐ฐ Denmark, including Greenland (for now): https://feddit.dk/
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๐ช๐บ Europe: https://europe.pub/
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๐ซ๐ท๐ง๐ช๐จ๐ญ France, Belgium, Switzerland: https://jlai.lu/
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๐ฉ๐ช๐ฆ๐น๐จ๐ญ๐ฑ๐ฎ Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Lichtenstein: https://feddit.org/
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๐ซ๐ฎ Finland: https://sopuli.xyz/ & https://suppo.fi/
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๐ฎ๐ธ Iceland: https://feddit.is/
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๐ฎ๐น Italy: https://feddit.it/
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๐ฑ๐น Lithuania: https://group.lt/
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๐ฑ๐บ Luxembourg https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/
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๐ณ๐ฑ Netherlands: https://feddit.nl/
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๐ต๐ฑ Poland: https://fedit.pl/ & https://szmer.info/
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๐ต๐น Portugal: https://lemmy.pt/
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๐ธ๐ฎ Slovenia: https://gregtech.eu/
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๐ธ๐ช Sweden: https://feddit.nu/
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๐น๐ท Turkey: https://lemmy.com.tr/
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๐ฌ๐ง UK: https://feddit.uk/
Friendica:
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๐ฆ๐น Austria: https://friendica.io/
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๐ฎ๐น Italy: https://poliverso.org/
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๐ฉ๐ช Germany: https://piratenpartei.social/ & https://anonsys.net/
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๐ซ๐ท Significant French speaking userbase: https://social.trom.tf/
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๐ต๐ฑ Poland: soc.citizen4.eu
Matrix:
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๐ฌ๐ง UK: matrix.org & glasgow.social
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๐ซ๐ท France: tendomium & imagisphe.re & hadoly.fr
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๐ฉ๐ช Germany: tchncs.de, catgirl.cloud, pub.solar, yatrix.org, digitalprivacy.diy, oblak.be, nope.chat, hot-chilli.im, synod.im & rollenspiel.chat
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๐ณ๐ฑ Netherlands: bark.lgbt
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๐ฆ๐น Austria: gemeinsam.jetzt & private.coffee
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๐ซ๐ฎ Finland: pikaviestin.fi & chat.blahaj.zone
Related Communities:
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Companies:
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I even work on spreading Esperanto, as a neutral language for Europe and humankind ๐ซก
this is our chance! :D
I have been interested in Esperanto for unrelated reasons, any tips on where to start?
If you are website enjoyer, https://lernu.net/ is a solid, free of charge web course in many languages, with big community.ย
I have also heard good reviews on the Zagreb Method - https://esperanto12.net/
If you prefer apps, https://www.duolingo.com/ works great in English, if a lot of examples is your way to go.
Of you are a book person, I have read that "Complete Esperanto" by Tim Owen is highly acclaimed. Also "Esperanto per rekta metodo" ("Esperanto by direct method", so directly on Esperanto with elimination of translations) works great for many people.
Some very basic stuff, mostly list of common phases for traveling, it's available at Wikivoyage, in several languages ๐ https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q143#sitelinks-wikivoyage
Using Anki flashcards helps to memorize words, but I am not using it so I am not sure where to find the data to use...
If you prefer in-person course, you may ask people from the Esperanto organization in your country (see https://uea.org/landoj), or visit some meeting to get in-depth answers and make new friends (see https://eventaservo.org/).
Ultimately, it depends on your learning style to select (or create) a learning process, but these are solid. Enjoy, and please comment here after some time about your progress. I would love to know!
Thanks! Iโm historically not a strong language learner, but will check out lernu.net
I had big problems with languages all the way up to university, but get Esperanto pretty quickly. Good luck ๐ค
https://lernu.net/
Thanks!
Why? English from England.
English, as an national language, is great for national communication.
But using national language for international communication is like using black-white television to watch a color movie - it kind of works, but it definitely loses a lot.
There are at least 2 important factors:
neutrality: English used for international communication favors people from English speaking countries. Inside of Europe that is not to big problem, because Ireland and Malta, while being great counties, have relatively small population - so English can work as a reasonably neutral language for European communication. But when it comes to Europe in world - English is used but a country that left us and by country that wages trade war against us. That highlights that English definitely is not a worldwide neutral language.
ease of use: Esperanto was designed to be easy to learn and use, while functioning very well as a mean of communication. It does not carry a burden of centuries of non-systemic evolution, so it does not have things like irregular verbs. It's grammar is very regular with simple rules. It enables creating words with a set of prefixes and sufixes so one does not need to learn a bunch of new (different) words about related things (like: to eat, to snack, to feast, food, meal, cantina, utensils, etc. - they are manฤi, manฤeti, manฤegi, manฤo, manฤaฤตo, manฤejo, manฤiloj etc). Experience shows that learning Esperanto is 5-10x faster that learning national languages. It's just much not efficient.
Than comes other factors, like pushing some way of thinking, usual for one specific nation, to all humankind, atc, but those 2 are the basic ones.
Esperanto + Shavian is the constructed future i dream of.
By chance, is it you who is posting this on Mastodon?
i'm not on Mastodon anymore.
Ah, OK. Because someone was posting about Esperanto in a different writing system.
there are dozens of us! dozens! ๐
English is just not great as an international language. It is one because of imperialistic history.
Between the US and brexit, it's a great incentive to maybe move on.
Year of Esperanto here we come! XD
*ahem* Brexit